It was 2 am and the phone was ringing. My heart stopped. “She’s gone into labor,” my husband said, grabbing a pair of jeans from the floor. “She wants us to take her to the hospital.” While he dressed, I stayed glued to the bed. Too shocked to even move. ‘She’ was a birthmom we’d […]
My husband and I have three adopted children. Three boys. They are ‘all boy’, as the saying goes. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. They call each other brothers of another mother. They’re cool with that and so am I. As a young married woman 19 years ago, adoption was the furthest thing
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“I don’t need a trip to the beauty shop ’cause I love what I have on top.” If you’ve been hanging out on Facebook, Twitter, or Youtube, chances are that you’ve heard those words being sung by a happy brown Sesame Street muppet girl with a springy little afro. I don’t know what her name
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